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Cisco Systems® announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for certain Cisco SFS 3000 Series, SFS 7000 Series, and Accessories in the European Union countries. The last day to order the affected product is May 30, 2006. European Union countires customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) until November 30, 2011.

Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product. Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected by this announcement.

Customers are encouraged to migrate to the new product identifications that annotate products with identical form, fit or function of the end-of-sale/end-of-life products. Table 2 provides relevant information for migrating to the replacement product.

The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date.

May 30, 2006

European Union Countries End of routine failure analysis date

The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine the cause of product failure or defect.

November 30, 2007

European Union Countries End of new service attachment date

For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.

November 30, 2007

European Union Countries End of service contract renewal date

The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.

May 30, 2011

European Union Countries Last date of support

The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete.

Customers are encouraged to migrate to the new product identifications for Cisco SFS 3000 Series, SFS 7000 Series, and accessories. Information about this product can be found at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6418/index.html. The new product identifications of Cisco SFS 3000 Series, SFS 7000 Series, and accessories have the same form, fit, and function as their older- product-identification counterparts.

Customers can use the Cisco Technology Migration Plan (TMP) to trade in products and receive credit toward the purchase of new Cisco equipment. For more information about Cisco TMP, go to
http://www.cisco.com/go/tradein/. The Cisco TMP application requires all users to have a Cisco.com user ID.